Ep 25 : Containerisation for Industrial IoT - Neil Cresswell (CEO, Co-Founder - Portainer) )

Here's the thing. Containerisation is not only an IT technology, it is an advanced IT technology. And yet, it already looms on the horizon for Operations Technology.​And, while the technology opens up massive opportunities for optimisation and efficiency in the OT network, it demands a fundamental rethink of industrial software distribution and management.​To find out what this actually means for vendors, engineers, and system integrators in the industrial space, I invited Neil Cresswell for a conversation.​Neil is the CEO and Co-Founder of a company called Portainer.io, the most popular Docker Container Management platform that abstracts the complexities of container management with a feature-rich and easy-to-use Graphical User Interface.​Below is the outline of our conversation.​✅ What are containers?✅ Benefits of containerisation at the Industrial Edge✅ Challenges of adopting containers for Industrial Edge Compute✅ Key differences between containerisation at the edge and in the cloud✅ Containerization Approaches and Microservices for IIoT✅ What is Portainer and How it Works✅ Use Cases in Industrial IoT✅ Portainer Products✅ Reference Architectures for Managing software in OT✅ Best Practices Containerisation at the Industrial Edge✅ How a Containerised PLC functions✅ Impact of Containerisation on Industrial System Integration✅ The Future of Industrial Software Distribution